Role/Job Title: Magento Developer Work Location: London, UK Mode of Working:3 days/week Duration of Assignment: 06 Months The Role A seasoned Magento expert with a decade of experience in architecting, developing, and optimizing large scale e-commerce platforms. Skilled in Magento 2 custom module development, performance tuning, and complex third-party integrations. Leads technical strategy, solution design, and best practice implementation across multi-store and multi-region setups. Experienced in managing end to end project lifecycles, including requirement analysis, sprint planning, and release management. Collaborates closely with cross functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions Your Responsibilities (Up to 10, Avoid repetition) Own solution architecture: Design scalable Magento 2/Adobe Commerce architectures (B2C/B2B), define module boundaries, integration patterns, and data flows; make build vs. buy calls.
Lead complex deliveries: Break down epics, estimate, plan sprints, deal risk dependencies, and ensure on time, quality releases across multi-store and multi-region setups.
Handson development: Implement high impact backend modules (DI, plugins, observers, service contracts, APIs) and guide frontend (PWA/Knockout) where needed.
Performance & scalability: Profile and tune PHP/MySQL, indexing, caching layers (Varnish/Redis), search (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch), and CDN strategy to meet SLAs.
Security & compliance: Enforce secure coding, patching cadence, PCI considerations, access controls, and data protection practices.
Integration leadership: Architect/oversee robust integrations with ERPs, CRMs, payment/shipping providers, search, and marketing platforms (via REST/GraphQL/webhooks/middleware).
DevOps & environments: Champion CI/CD, branching strategy, code quality gates, containerized environments (Docker), infra configuration (NGINX/Apache), and observability.
Code quality & governance: Set coding standards (PSR, PHPCS, PHPStan), conduct deep code reviews, enforce test coverage (PHPUnit/MFTF), and manage tech debt.
Mentorship & team growth: Coach developers, run design reviews, pair programming, learning plans, and build a high ownership engineering culture.
Stakeholder management: Translate business goals into technical roadmaps, align with product/UX/QA/DevOps, and communicate risks, trade-offs, and timelines clearly.
Your Profile Essential Skills / Knowledge / Experience (Up to 10, Avoid repetition) Expert in Magento 2 architecture & custom development - deep knowledge of modules, DI, plugins, observers, service contracts, APIs (REST/GraphQL), multi store setups, and performance tuning.
Strong backend & frontend capabilities - PHP 7/8, MySQL, Composer, MVC, HTML/CSS, JS, Knockout.js, theme development, and experience with Hyv /PWA Studio.
DevOps, deployment & scalability skills - Git, CI/CD, caching (Varnish/Redis), and security best practices.
Leadership & integration expertise - able to design solutions, lead teams, review code, optimize performance, and integrate Magento with ERPs, CRMs, payment gateways, and enterprise systems.
Magento, SQL, PHP, jQuery, JS, HTML, CSS, Rest/Soap/GraphQL API
Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
Knowledge of compliance standards and security best practices in cloud environments.
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